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Clera

Founding DevOps Engineer

Clera San Francisco, California, United States · $200K–$300K/yr

Technology, Information and Internet · 11-50 employees

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devops Mid (2-5 yrs) Full-time United States
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About the role

Own and build the company’s cloud platform, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, and observability systems. Establish security, on-call, incident response, cost management, and platform practices as the engineering team grows.

What they look for

Cloud Infrastructure Networking Databases Infrastructure as Code Terraform Pulumi CI/CD Containers Orchestration Observability Incident Response Security IAM TypeScript Python Cost Monitoring

Requirements

Requires at least four years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including production on-call work and hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code, containers, and orchestration. Candidates should have experience with reliable CI/CD, observability, incident response, security practices, and production application code in TypeScript or Python.

Full description

About the Role

As the founding DevOps Engineer at an early-stage personal AI company, you will build the operational platform that enables a small engineering team to ship frequently and keep a trusted product reliable. You will establish the infrastructure, security, and incident response practices that support the product as it grows.

What You'll Do

  • Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, defining environments as code so engineers can provision and remove them reliably.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with fast builds, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rapid rollbacks.
  • Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems that surface issues early.
  • Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response practices, and lead postmortems that reduce repeat issues.
  • Implement security controls, including secrets management, least-privilege access, dependency scanning, audit logs, and infrastructure supporting privacy commitments.
  • Monitor infrastructure costs and capacity, plan for growth, and reduce waste.
  • Set platform standards and help hire engineers as the team grows.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 4 years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including production on-call responsibilities.
  • Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.
  • A track record of building CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling that support frequent, reliable releases.
  • Experience with observability, incident response, postmortems, cloud infrastructure ownership, and security practices such as IAM and vulnerability scanning.
  • Ability to write TypeScript or Python and work with application code in production systems.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, with the judgment to verify and take ownership of shipped code.
  • A hands-on, founding-team mindset, with experience in cost monitoring, capacity planning, and helping teams adopt infrastructure practices.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, California.

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